GitHub

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Connecting your GitHub account

Connect your GitHub account to pull in issues and pull requests from your watched repositories.

1. Go to the GitHub app page in Koala.
2. Click Connect GitHub.
3. Select the “Profile Identity Tracking” option that best suits your use case.

• Strict: only track users that can be associated with an email address, or a company.
• Track everyone: track all users, even if they can’t be associated with an email address or company.

3. Add any number of repositories to watch.

• Add repositories by entering the full URL, or by searching for the repository name.

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Best practices

Here are some tips to get started:

• Start by mapping out all the repositories your company owns that are most relevant. That can give you insight from a bottoms up perspective from how a company is starting to research your product. We do a historical sync here up to 12mo, so it can also give you visibility into who’s a few months into the research journey. Which we’re finding to be a pretty effective play.
• Map out other OSS projects in your space that are complementary or related to your product.
• Track your competitor’s repos to understand what else is being considered.

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Using GitHub data in the Koala App

You can use GitHub data in the Koala app to create lists, alerts, and more.

A new Sources filter will appear in the top left of your lists, allowing you to filter by GitHub.

A new GitHub section will appear in your filters menu, allowing you to view and filter GitHub data.